[Stoves] Chip drying without pyrolysing; Biocoal manufacture.

[Alex English]

If I were to dry wood chips, I'd be building a variation on the linear 
corn crib.

http://tinyurl.com/pdq4uhp

Wide enough for a loader  and  a minimum of 7 meters tall*.*  Planks at 
loader scraping height with wire or chain link fencing above. 
Polyethylene roof. Orient it across the path of the summer winds if 
possible.

Having tried it at a smaller scale, I'm inclined to think it would work 
here with one or two good drying months  out of twelve.

Alex

On 25/01/2014 3:51 PM, ajheggie at gmail.com wrote:
> [Default] On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:27:58 -0500,Tom Reed
> <tombreed2010 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The question of how to easily dry green wood chips addresses one of the most important problems in wood energy:  how to dry green chips!  Wood is much easier to chip wet, but a chip pile never dries of its own accord.
>

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